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November 9 in San Antonio history...

1918 – World War I
Private David B. Barkley, who enlisted in San Antonio, drowns while crossing the Meuse River on a scouting mission behind German lines near Pouilly-sur-Meuse, France. He is later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor and he is the second person to lie in state in the Alamo. The son of Josef Barkley and Antonia Cantu of Laredo, he is the first Mexican-American Medal of Honor winner.

1918 – World War I
Prince Maximilian of Germany announces that Kaiser Wilhelm II has abdicated both the crown of Imperial Germany and Prussia. Maximilian himself is forced to resign as Chancellor of Germany. Friedrich Ebert of the Social Democratic Party of Germany takes control.

1963
Bexar County voters registered 18,372 to 15,664 in favor of a statewide amendment to repeal Texas’s 61-year-old poll tax. Unfortunately, the rest of the state was much less progressive and the poll tax remains in place.

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